Sat.Feb 05, 2022 - Fri.Feb 11, 2022

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Three Immutable Laws of Contact Centers

Brad Cleveland Blog

There are three immutable laws at work in contact centers that you must keep in mind. They’re always present. Understanding them will help you establish the right metrics, communicate important trade-offs, and shape an organizational structure that works well. Find more videos about contact centers in my LinkedIn Learning course “Managing a Customer Contact Center.

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Why Your Measurement is Killing Your Customer Experience And What to Do About it

Beyond Philosophy

I am surprised daily about how many organizations can’t articulate how their improvement in various experience measures, like Net Promoter Score® , will benefit the organization. This connection is essential to understand to create a winning customer strategy. . The same is true for customer data. Too often, an organization is excellent at collecting data to measure the effects of their efforts but has no idea how they will use it.

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Is It Really That Important That I’m Wearing a Name Tag?

Steve DiGioia

There’s always that one employee who refuses to follow directions. It seems that no matter how many times you talk to him, he continues to “forget” to do what he’s told or at worst, intentionally refuses to do it. So, what do you do with an employee like this? Sure, we can give him a kick in the rear and show him the door, but you never want to lose an otherwise half-decent employee if you can help it.

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Let’s Talk Psychological Priming! Live 2/10 @ 10:00 am CT

Myra Golden Media

Learn how to guide challenging customers to the next steps using Psychological Priming! Pour up a cup of coffee and join me live! .

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Amazing Business Radio: Steve Peltzman

ShepHyken

An Evolutionary Moment for CX. Building a Reactive and Predictive Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Steve Peltzman head of FeedbackNow , Forrester ’s AI-powered physical & digital solution.?They discuss how companies can sense, analyze, and react to issues that affect customer experience. Top Takeaways: Wherever customers go, something is different.

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Why Your Measurement is Killing Your Customer Experience And What To Do About It

Beyond Philosophy

Big Data creates big problems. One of the biggest problems is what to do with it now that you have it. Don’t feel too bad if this is true for your company. Most organizations have no idea to use the customer insights they have collected. Moreover, it’s surprising how many organizations can’t tell you how improving metrics identified by the employed measures translates to providing value to the organization.

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Nextiva named a Best Software Award winner in G2 2022 user rankings

Nextiva

Nextiva was named a G2 Best Software Award winner in two categories: Collaboration & Productivity and Global Sellers. G2, the global software marketplace used by more than 60 million software buyers, released its awards today, which rank the world's best software companies and products based on authentic, timely reviews from real users. Nextiva ranked #5 […].

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Use Relationship Data to Build Stronger Connections

ShepHyken

First, I hope the word “data” doesn’t scare you off. We’re not going to discuss the typical customer data that might bore most people, although I’ll admit that I get excited and geek out about the data, stats, and facts that show trends in business. Today we’re going to talk about relationship data. . First, understand that relationship data is information you have about a customer that you can’t get by looking at a spreadsheet that includes information about all your customers.

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Don’t serve to satisfy customers. Serve to WOW them.

Bill Quiseng

Don’t serve to satisfy customers. Serve to WOW them. The customer does not “journey” sequentially over time, from start to finish. They journey emotionally with “ow” and “WOW moments” The more ow or WOW, the more emotional the moment, the more memorable the experience. The more ow, the more disgustingly memorable the experience, the more disloyal the customer.

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The Contact Center Manager’s Guide to AI

Step-by-step instructions on how to use AI for growth in your contact center Learn how AI can transform your contact center operations. In this ebook, dig into the different AI technologies, then see how each can help automate tasks, streamline service, and turn your contact center from a cost center to a profit house. Plus, we’ll give you practical tips on choosing the right AI tools, getting them up and running, and measuring their impact.

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Six lenses of best practice for Customer Charter development

Peter Lavers

Customer charters can play a key role in manifesting your wider brand promise into concrete standards and commitments that you are happy for your customers to judge you by. In hundreds of engagements in all types of businesses and sectors, we have seen a lot of customer propositions, charters and promises! If we have learned anything from this experience it’s that your charter mustn’t be wishy washy!!

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3 Strategies to Reduce Work-at-Home Employee Attrition

Virtual Live Labs

According to a recent McKinsey poll , the top three factors employees cited as reasons for quitting were: 1) They didn’t feel valued by their organizations (54 percent), 2) they didn’t feel valued by their managers (52 percent), and 3) they didn’t feel a sense of belonging at work (51 percent). Now that work-at-home is here to stay, leaders at all levels are going to have to re-engineer how they lead.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 2-7-2022

ShepHyken

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. 9 Ways to Build Customer Loyalty by Ken Peterson. (CMSWire) This got me thinking about all the companies I’ve worked with and used over the years and what they actually did to earn my loyalty.

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Customer Success: What It Means, Why It Matters, and More

Help Scout

Customer success boosts lifetime customer value, creates stickier customers, and even provides deeply helpful product insights. Here’s our guide on how to do it well.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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Why so many contact centres are turning to Microsoft Teams (Video)

Eptica

Date: Monday, February 7, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Why so many contact centres are turning to Microsoft Teams (Video). Published on: February 07, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager With its combination of superior collaboration tools, workplace chat, video meetings, shared file storage, and application integration designed to deliver a powerful collaboration environment, a growing number of contact centres are implementing Microsoft Teams.

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Three Steps to a Winning B2B Customer Experience Plan

Totango

Delivering a satisfying B2B customer experience is key to staying competitive in today’s SaaS market. Here, we’ll outline a strategic roadmap to developing a winning B2B customer experience strategy. First, we’ll take a look at what B2B customer experience is and why it’s an important priority. Then, we’ll walk you through three steps for creating a solid customer experience strategy.

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Guest Post: How to Improve Your Post-Purchase Customer Experience

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Devin Pickell, Growth Marketer at Privy. He shares simple but effective ways to improve your post-purchase customer experience so your customers keep coming back for more. Getting a customer to make their first purchase is not easy. Out of all the options available today, they decided to go with your brand. Maybe they read a handful of 5-star customer reviews, perhaps your product page really stuck out to them.

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TrustRadius Awards ChurnZero with a 2022 Most Loved Award

ChurnZero

Love is in the air. TrustRadius has recognized ChurnZero with a 2022 Most Loved Award , and we couldn’t have done it without the support of our amazing customers and just want to say thank you! We love you too! Head over heels. There are 25,820 products on TrustRadius in more than 800 technology categories. ChurnZero is rated as one of the 101 “Most Loved” software platforms for 2022 – placing the company in the top.0004%.

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Your Roadmap to Successful AI Implementations in the Contact Center

CX leaders are in a gold rush for AI, lured by the promise of cost savings and a revolution in service delivery. But simply deploying AI in your contact center isn't a magic bullet. There are hidden dangers that can derail your AI dreams. Recent incidents, such as the missteps of an AI chatbot deployed by Air Canada, have underscored the complexities and risks involved in leveraging AI in customer-facing roles.

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The 9 Best Gmelius Alternatives for Email Collaboration

Help Scout

Looking for the best email collaboration tool for your team? We’ve compared 9 different Gmelius alternatives to help you find the best option.

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Let’s Talk About Softphone SMS

VirtualPBX

Today’s communications rely on many factors to be successful. One, in particular that stands out the most is Business SMS. The Softphone App and SMS keeps your internal and external communities connected in such a way that not using it would be a professional setback. If you’re a real estate agent on the go, you can get immediate responses for live showings, or if you’re a business owner needing to send out a time-sensitive company update, Softphone SMS that and boom, done.

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Manage cloud telephony call quality and connection rates

Spearline

The rise of cloud telephony software such as Webex Calling and MS Teams We previously wrote about the benefits and challenges of cloud PBX. The one certainty is that the reliance on cloud-based team collaboration software is not declining anytime soon. Thousands of enterprises use these applications on a daily basis to keep dispersed teams connected and communicating.

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Speech Analytics - Challenges and Opportunities for Collection Agencies

Provana

As agencies develop a more strategic approach to incorporate flexibility and scalability into their collection efforts, speech technology has become an integral part of their growth strategy. To boost productivity without neglecting compliance, call center-based companies must look to advanced speech analytics (SA) platforms to provide a positive consumer experience while bolstering revenue.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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How to Guide Your Team and Customers Through the Customer Change Management Process

ChurnZero

According to the Harvard Business Review , about 75% of change efforts fail due to their inability to deliver value or complete abandonment. . Pile that on top of other stressors, and your chances of change friction and burnout skyrocket. “The amount of change that the average employee can absorb without becoming fatigued is half of what it was last year,” says Jessica Knight , Vice President of Gartner. .

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Problem Solved: Software-Only MFA for Call Center PCI Compliance

CSM Magazine

In 2020 there were an estimated 2.83 million people working in call centers across the United States according to Statista.com. These facilities are the backbone of numerous industries’ customer service operations which rely upon these call centers and call center agents to ensure their customers are receiving the best experience possible. In an industry that employs millions and is also responsible for handling sensitive information for millions, security and efficiency are extremely impo

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New country! El Salvador joins Spearline mobile testing.

Spearline

Welcome El Salvador to Spearline! We are delighted to inform you that El Salvador has just joined Spearline, and is available for immediate testing. This means you can now test numbers in El Salvador, across its two major mobile networks – Claro and Tigo. In addition, the solution is hosted in San Salvador, which is where the calls will originate from, and terminate in.

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Contact Center Technology Trends to Watch in 2022

Hodusoft

Contact Center Technology Trends to Watch in 2022. As we gear up for 2022, enterprises across the board are revisiting the ups and downs of their business and the industry at large. The contact center trends too, changed completely driven by the pandemic. 2020-21 saw most contact centers make a shift to cloud contact center software. And if one is to go by indications, contact center trends for 2022 , signal a whole new wave coming.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Support Talks: Why You Should Embrace Your Errors

Nicereply

Avoiding errors seems like something we were all taught to do. . Our parents, throughout our schooling, and as we entered into the workforce we were told not to make mistakes, apologize when we do make one, and learn something from them. Read our first piece of Support talks with Craig Stoss and Paul Tucker , Head of Customer Support at EveryoneSocial , focuses on the last of those three points. .

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How to Execute a Churn Analysis for Account Managers

Kapta Customer Success

For a business to be successful, you must be willing to make continuous updates and improvements where necessary. More importantly, you should always be focused on your customers and how you can improve their experience with your brand and products or services. This starts with tracking your churn rate versus customer retention and running churn analysis to discover what's causing customers to go to the competition — and change it.

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The Power of Voice Analytics

Spearline

Competitors in every business sector are striving for Customer experience (CX) excellence which will drive growth. Gartner estimate that more than 90% of customer conversations happen on the phone. Therefore, telephone conversation is a huge area for CX management. With many millions of customer conversations happening each and every day, voice traffic is very much “big data”.